I can see this film dividing opinion, since bike fanatics (of which the UK has a high number) will seek to pick holes in the reality of the story and staging in the same way that a locomotive fan will point out that the 4472, “Flying Scotsman” shouldn’t have been in a film set in … Read more
Spectre is premium Bond. But it’s not quite the perfect film that the hype of the 5* reviews might suggest. We learn a few new things: some more of the back history of Bond; that switches in Bond cars don’t always work the way you expect; and that Ralph Fiennes really can’t run very elegantly! … Read more
I can only hope that the creators of “The Lobster” – Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos and his co-writer Efthymis Filippou – find treatment at a good drug-rehabilitation clinic. A black and disturbing comedy, it can only be the creation of medically warped minds. David (Colin Farrell) checks into a remote Irish hotel with his brother … Read more
Whilst most men would agree that giving women the vote was a dreadful mistake (put that stone down ladies…. it’s just a joke), the astonishing story behind the UK social upheaval that was the Suffragette movement is well overdue a serious cinematic treatment. And a serious treatment Sarah Gavron’s new film most certainly is: you … Read more
When I was a 10-year old kid my favourite TV programme was Gerry Anderson’s U.F.O. and my favourite EVER episode of that was one called “Survival”. In it, Colonel Paul Foster (the late Michael ‘nearly Bond’ Billington) was stranded believed dead on the moon a hundred miles from Moonbase with diminishing oxygen supplies and with the … Read more